“Is there any library which won’t suck when I’m deploying?”
That’s a question I used to ask for at least 90% of my projects.
Setting up undetected-chromedriver on macOS used to be pure pain for me. And since many clients didn’t really understand how all of this worked, they wanted a GUI to interact with. Of course, Python has libraries to build GUIs… but most of them look like they’re straight out of the early 2000s.
So I started looking for alternatives and eventually landed on JavaScript. It had better scraping libraries like Puppeteer, deployment felt smoother, and it’s already the primary language for web applications, so things just fit together better.
But then came the other limitations.
Data cleaning wasn’t great.
There were weird quirks, runtime oddities, and overall I just didn’t enjoy writing code in it as much. Scaling in js was also difficult, definitely doable but harder to optimize.
That’s when I discovered Golang.
It's community is small and is still growing, but it absolutely wins when it comes to speed, reliability, concurrency, and deployment. Goroutines and channels make concurrent workloads way easier as compared to threads or async-heavy code in other ecosystems.
Create a single binary and that's it.
No virtual environments, no dependency hell. Just copy it to whatever platform you want and run it.
That was a gold find for me.
Go is extremely good for networking, has solid support for web automation through libraries like chromedp and rod, and when it comes to scaling, Go performs far better than Python specially in CPU-bound and high-concurrency workloads. It has a predictable memory footprint too also the startup times are faster, and it handles thousands of concurrent connections without chugging resources unnecessarily.
You can argue with me that Python's got more libs, and that TypeScript makes JavaScript more reliable. And sure, I agree. But the raw performance, simplicity of deployment, and consistency Go provides are hard to match. You can even build IPC-based communication layers and easily integrate Go services with other languages for frontends or specialized tooling.
Yes, Go has comparatively smaller ecosystem.
Yes, there are fewer libraries right now.
But if it’s supported well and adopted by more developers, Go can very much challenge Python’s dominance in web scraping, especially for large-scale, production-grade systems where performance, stability, and deployment actually matter.
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